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• Everyday People project: Photographer Pablo Conejo placed an ad on Gumtree - and kickstarted a series of interesting encounters

  24-04-2015 23:00
  
  The idea for Everyday People came from observing people on the streets of London and wondering about their personal stories. Before then, my work revolved around architecture, but as an urban sociologist I wanted to get closer to people.
  
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• Chris Dercon to step down as Tate Modern director

  24-04-2015 21:34
  
  The Tate is losing its second major figure in the space of a month after Tate Modern director Chris Dercon announced he is to leave the gallery in 2017.
  
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• Brent Wadden at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York

  24-04-2015 20:34 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: Starting today, Brent Wadden‘s solo show is on view at Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York through May 30, 2015. Wadden’s labor-intensive process involves working handwoven fibers, yarn, wool, cotton, and acrylic on … Read More
  
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• Catherine Opie Moves to Lehmann Maupin

  24-04-2015 19:33 via artnews.com
  Photographer Catherine Opie is now represented by Lehmann Maupin, the gallery announced in a press release today. Her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, which has space in New York (in Chelsea and on the Lower East Side) and in Hong Kong, will open in … Read More
  
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• Art Brussels Relocating to Inner-City Brussels in 2016

  24-04-2015 18:59 via artnews.com
  The Art Brussels fair, which runs this weekend, is moving to a more central location for its 2016 edition—Tour & Taxis, which was formerly the site of the Royal Customs House. Constructed between 1904 and 1906, it sits adjacent to a … Read More
  
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• ‘Is Disappointment Even Relevant Anymore?': Philip-Lorca diCorcia on His ‘East of Eden’ Show at David Zwirner

  24-04-2015 18:24 via artnews.com
  The first thing Philip-Lorca diCorcia said to me on the record is, “I didn’t see the Björk show, because I have no interest in anything Klaus Biesenbach does. Frankly, I think he should be fired.” That is a more mundane example of … Read More
  
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• MAK Vienna Becomes First Museum to Use Bitcoin to Acquire Art, a Harm van den Dorpel

  24-04-2015 18:17 via artnews.com
  Digital currencies have been (very) slowly but surely infiltrating the art market, and now the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art (MAK) has become the first museum in the world to have purchased a work of art using Bitcoin. That … Read More
  
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• MAK Vienna Becomes First Museum to Acquire Art Using Bitcoin, a Harm van den Dorpel

  24-04-2015 18:17 via artnews.com
  Digital currencies have been (very) slowly but surely infiltrating the art market, and now the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art (MAK) has become the first museum in the world to have purchased a work of art using Bitcoin. That … Read More
  
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• People's choice? Mixed reviews for Chris Dercon's Volksbühne role

  24-04-2015 18:11
  
  Berlin’s avant-garde theatre, given to lengthy and messy productions, names the Tate Modern director as its new leader amid suspicions that profit-making will edge out experimentationThe announcement that Chris Dercon, the director of London’s Tate Modern, is to move to Berlin to take up the leading post at the experimental theatre the Volksbühne has received a mixed response in the German capital, with cultural experts variously calling it a triumph and a dangerous departure.Dercon, wh
  
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• Jackson Pollock, the one-man tornado who spattered his way to fame

  24-04-2015 16:41
  
  In the 1940s, the poor alcoholic artist was saved by a rich heiress, Peggy Guggenheim. Now the pair are reunited in a knockout Venice show that busts all the myths about America’s noblest savage
  In a black-and-white photograph taken in about 1946, they pose together awkwardly before a vast, swirling, abstract painting. She clutches pampered little dogs in each arm. He wears a suit, for once, as he looks at Peggy’s pooches with a shadowed face.Peggy Guggenheim and Jackson Pollock were not lov
  
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• "War is inside all of us": as VE day nears, artists from Maggi Hambling to Jeremy Deller discuss commemorating conflict

  24-04-2015 15:06
  
  It was last year’s biggest art story: before the installation Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red opened at the Tower of London in August last year to commemorate the centenary of the First World War, it was expected to provide a spectacle, but no one predicted its impact. Come its closure on 12 November, the sea of ceramic poppies had attracted more than four million visitors and captured the national imagination. “It was rather a marvellous thing as it made it possible for a lot of people t
  
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• Sotheby’s to Auction Big Ass Egg

  24-04-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here’s one for all you egg fans out there: Sotheby’s sent out an e-mail blast this morning–headline: “The World’s Most Valuable Egg?”–announcing that it was selling an “extremely rare elephant bird egg,” valued at £30,000–£50,000 ($45,450–$75,750). For anyone used to … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Jasper Johns’ Assistant Edition

  24-04-2015 14:55 via artnews.com
  Castle Glin, the home of 29th (and last) Knight of Glin Desmond Fitzgerald, located in Limerick, Ireland, is on sale for €6.5. [The Art Newspaper] Director of the Tate Modern Chris Dercon will be leaving to become the artistic director … Read More
  
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• Boris Johnson, the women wrestlers of Bolivia and a supermarket of neuroses – the week in art

  24-04-2015 14:54
  
  What BoJo has actually done for London, who won the Sony photography awards, and how the Counter Terror Expo taps into our fears. Plus boozing in Ireland and skateboarding in Afghanistan – in your weekly dispatchTheaster Gates
  This genuinely subversive artist looks at the nature of freedom in his latest provocative confrontation of art and life.
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• Going downtown with Super Mario and the Avengers: inside the new Whitney Museum – in pictures

  24-04-2015 14:48
  
  The Whitney Museum of American Art has moved from Madison Avenue to a new address in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan. Take a look at the inaugural show in the new space – with works by Cory Arcangel, Charles Ray, Alex Katz and more – ahead of its official opening on 1 May Continue reading...
  
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• Atthis, Linbury Theatre, review: Sappho brought brilliantly to life

  24-04-2015 14:07
  
  ‘I sleep alone/ You have forgotten me/ I stare into midnight/ Neither honey nor bee’: Sappho’s fragmentary poems of love and loss continue to reverberate through the millennia, and are currently doing so with pristine force in a brilliantly-staged song-cycle by the Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas at the Linbury. We have seen the soprano Claire Booth directed by that lighting-magician Netia Jones before, and here they were joined by dancers Laure Bachelot and Rachel Maybank, but nev
  
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• Snow White Rising Synopsis part 2 of 2

  24-04-2015 12:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The post Snow White Rising Synopsis part 2 of 2 appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Tate Modern boss to leave for leading role at Berlin's Volksbühne theatre

  24-04-2015 10:23
  
  Departure of Chris Dercon, who will take charge of Berlin’s experimental theatre in 2017, means Tate has lost two directors in as many monthsThe director of Tate Modern, Chris Dercon, is to leave the gallery to take charge of Berlin’s experimental theatre, the Volksbühne.It will be announced in Germany on Friday afternoon that Dercon has been lured to take over from Frank Castorf in 2017, another coup for the country’s culture ministry which also persuaded the British Museum’s Neil
  
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• When This Famous Orchestra Moved Its HQ Into A Housing Project, Good Things Started Happening

  24-04-2015 10:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Eight years ago, one of Europe’s best-known orchestras” – the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen – “moved their rehearsal rooms to a secondary school on this housing estate and pupils from Tenever found themselves sharing their corridors and lunch tables with professional musicians. Since then the school’s results have improved, its drop-out rates have fallen to less […]
  
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• García Lorca Was Killed On Official Orders, Say 1960s Police Files

  24-04-2015 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The documents, written in 1965 at the Granada police headquarters and obtained by the Guardian, are the first ever admission by Franco-era officials of their involvement in the death in 1936 of the author of Blood Wedding and The House of Bernarda Alba.”
  
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• British Theatre Has Gone Election-Mad

  24-04-2015 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s a paradox. In TV studios and on Twitter, British politics seem trapped in a spin cycle of claim and counter-claim, carefully massaged soundbites and kitchen-sink (or kitchen-counting) drama for an audience largely looking the other way. But on stage – particularly in the hands of young, experimental theatre-makers – the workings of democracy have […]
  
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• Former Jasper Johns Aid Gets 18 Months In Prison For Art Theft

  24-04-2015 09:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  James Meyer “worked as an assistant to Johns for 25 years, and stole the works over the course of a six-year period, from 2006 to 2012. He admitted to stealing 22 works from Johns, all of which were unfinished pieces that the artist had not authorized for sale. Meyer sold them for a total of […]
  
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• How Well Are Museums Moving Into The Digital Future? Here Are 41 Good Examples

  24-04-2015 09:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The best recent innovations have been gathered in a new report, Next Practices in Digital and Technology, that the Association of Art Museum Directors is set to release on Friday. The report describes 41 museum projects that use digital technology to engage visitors, make collections more accessible and understandable or improve museum operations like ticketing […]
  
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• Why Sappho Is One Of The Most Important Figures In All Of Literary History

  24-04-2015 09:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “With a single poem, which says that her beloved Anactoria is more valuable than the splendor of any cavalry, infantry, or fleet, she created a tradition of ‘love-not-war’ lyrics whose future stretches from Propertius to Bob Dylan, John Lennon, and Bruce Springsteen. As the definitive ur-voice of lyric ecstasy, she is so consequential that poets […]
  
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• How Could Such A Good Broadway Revival Of ‘The Heidi Chronicles’ Flop? Is The Play That Out-Of-Date?

  24-04-2015 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Does it really “represent a moment in feminism that has passed”? Or is it an important piece of history? On the other hand, observes Lisa Kron, “Does this question get asked when a Mamet play closes?”
  
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• MIT Figures Out What Gives Strads And Guarneri Their Powerful Sound

  24-04-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The researchers acquired technical drawings of violins from museums, collector databases, and books, as well as x-rays and CT scans of the instruments. They compared the dimensions of various features and measurements of acoustic resonances in different instruments.”
  
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• British Cinema Chains Yank Biopic After Major Protests By Sikhs

  24-04-2015 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Odeon and Cineworld cinema chains have cancelled screenings of Indian film Nanak Shah Fakir following a major sit-in protest at a branch of Cineworld in Wolverhampton. … The film, a biopic of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak, was being protested because the religion prohibits any personification of the Guru, either by actors or in animated […]
  
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• Mixed Signals: Why People Misunderstand Each Other

  24-04-2015 09:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Explaining the deep-seated psychological habits most of us have – the transparency illusion, the primacy effect (that’s the power of first impressions), and the fact that we all tend to be “cognitive misers” – that make it difficult to consistently get an accurate read on other people.
  
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• What On Earth Has Happened To Those Beloved Old Ballroom Dances? Competition, That’s What

  24-04-2015 09:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alastair Macaulay: “How should we react to a waltz in which the man’s opening move is to lift the woman and hold her horizontally along his chest as he turns? Had you thought of ‘Send in the Clowns’ as a Viennese waltz? Me neither. … It’s a tribute to the three-part PBS series America’s Ballroom […]
  
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• Jan Morris: ‘I Hate Being Called A Travel Writer’

  24-04-2015 09:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I have written only one book about travel, concerning a journey across the Oman desert. I have written many books about place, which are nothing to do with movement, but many more about people and about history.” Here, she answers questions, some from readers, about her book Venice, her career, and her brushes with history.
  
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• The Shakespeare’s Globe Round-The-World “Hamlet” Tour: Postcards From The Halfway Mark

  24-04-2015 09:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “After 80,000 miles, 96 countries and more than 150 shows, the two-year worldwide tour of Hamlet has reached its halfway point in Spain – on Shakespeare’s birthday. Here’s a taste of some of the shows so far.” (slideshow)
  
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• Long live print: the graphic-design brotherhood keeping it inky

  24-04-2015 08:00
  
  Painstakingly scrawled designs, eye-popping screenprints, crisp letterpressing … since 2008, global design network People of Print have steered clear of Photoshopped blandness and stuck with glorious handmade imperfectionPeople of Print, by Marcroy Smith and Andy Cooke, is published by Thames & Hudson on 27 AprilContinue reading...
  
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• Long live print: the graphic-design gang keeping it inky

  24-04-2015 08:00
  
  Painstakingly scrawled designs, eye-popping screenprints, crisp letterpressing … since 2008, global design network People of Print have steered clear of Photoshopped blandness and stuck with glorious handmade imperfectionPeople of Print, by Marcroy Smith and Andy Cooke, is published by Thames & Hudson on 27 AprilContinue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.23.15

  24-04-2015 05:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Big data and price discrimination: chill AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2015-04-23 ESP Disks – origins of jazz beyond jazz AJBlog: Jazz Beyond Jazz Published 2015-04-23 Bernard Stollman’s ESP disks: Medici of ’60s beyond jazz AJBlog: Jazz Beyond Jazz Published 2015-04-23 Correspondence: Compatible Quotes – Coleman And Geller AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-04-23
  
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• The new Whitney: 'we want this to be a place of dialogue and debate'

  24-04-2015 02:58
  
  The curators of the Whitney museum, which opens in its new downtown space next week, plan to be politically confrontational – and to allow selfiesOn the fifth floor of the new Whitney museum’s inaugural exhibition, America is Hard to See, is a photograph of a man in a leather jacket, smoking late at night. It’s the artist David Wojnarowicz photographed by his lover and collaborator Peter Hujar, cruising on the piers on the Hudson River, off New York’s meatpacking district.Today, both men
  
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• Whitney museum: America Is Hard to See exhibition tells the stories of a nation

  24-04-2015 01:44
  
  Filled with anger and beauty, pleasure and confrontation, the new Whitney’s inaugural show reveals a museum unafraid to let the light – and the city – into the building and its artToo many museums suffer too much architecture, most of which is intrusive, space wasting and attention-grabbing. The new Whitney Museum of American Art feels like a place for art rather than a museum in which the architecture itself tries too hard to compete. Good heavens, Renzo Piano’s new building doesn’t e
  
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• ArtPrize Announces 2015 Jurors

  24-04-2015 00:00 via artnews.com
  Today in Grand Rapids, the city’s annual “radically open, international art competition” ArtPrize announced the jurors for it’s 2015 Grand Prize and Category awards, which it doles out in addition to prizes selected by the public. The Grand Prize panel … Read More
  
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